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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦

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an emergency doctor desperately trying to save the future (and the present) for his children

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 01/10/2026
Overwhelmed by huge world events over which you have literally no control? We get it. That's why on this month's show we bring you our good pal #GeraldWheatley who has been one of Calgary's biggest champions on building LOCAL resilience, community & justice www.podcastics.com/episode/4338... #yyc
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Global Chaos, Local Solutions
featuring Gerald Wheatley
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23h
Here's another perspective on how quickly the melt season has started for #Antarctic sea ice this year... More views at zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
Line graph time series of 2026's daily Antarctic sea ice extent compared to 1981-2010 climatological statistics. The graph shows the seasonal cycle, and ice-free conditions are indicated at 1 million square kilometers. Sea ice is currently below average for early October.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 19/02/2026
🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!
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David V. Wright @davevwright.bsky.social · 20h
There is a tendency to engage in apples to oranges framing, selecting big attractive numbers on the benefit side of the ledger (e.g. jobs, GDP) without presenting similar on the other side.
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David V. Wright @davevwright.bsky.social · 20h
Even if such work is accomplished, the open question will remain regarding whether the costs truly outweigh the benefits. Project assessments across Canada are notoriously poor at comprehensively assessing the full costs and risks of major infrastructure and natural resource extraction projects.
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David V. Wright @davevwright.bsky.social · 20h
Reviewing and approving this type of project this fast (one year) would be virtually unprecedented. It is unclear that the federal government can do what it takes in terms of diligent analysis of impacts in such a short period, not to mention fulfill the duty to consult Indigenous communities.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Behold, a column by the @theglobeandmail.com's Tony Keller that cries out for a debunking. Allow me. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: This was the week Canada stopped shooting its oil patch in the foot
We’re finally witnessing our country act with some sense of its own self-interest
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Daniel A. Walker @danwalker9999.bsky.social · 23h
Kenema General Hospital, 2015 Lab techs 8/8 infected, 7/8 died www.who.int/news-room/fe...
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The last Ebola survivor of his team
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 02/10/2026
This shit is so god damn annoying. Fix your country. Stop waging unprovoked economic war. Close the concentration camps. globalnews.ca/news/1208422...
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U.S. mayors ask Canadians to reconsider U.S. travel boycott - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca
Some American mayors are trying to encourage Canadians to reconsider boycotting travel across the border.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 23h
today's essential read for all Canadians. "the government’s huge subsidization of this project – up to 90 % of a $40B pipeline with ownership split evenly between Ottawa and Edmonton – lays bare a reality unfolding across the world economy: FFs aren’t just losing to clean energy. They’ve lost."
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Is it really a good idea for the government to subsidize a pipeline?
Designating the West Coast pipeline as a project of national interest exposes a global reality: Fossil fuels haven’t just lost to clean energy – they’ve already lost
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Tracey Saxby @traceysaxby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fun facts: 🔥Since 2007, BC’s climate pollution has decreased by 2.3 million tonnes. 🔥Approved LNG export projects will increase BC’s climate pollution by 21.2 million tonnes by 2035. 🔥This is ten times more pollution than we’ve managed to cut in nearly 20 years.
Trends in BC's greenhouse gas pollution from 1990 to 2023, with two projected futures. Approved LNG projects will increase BC's emissions by 21.2 million tonnes. If we meet BC's climate targets emissions will decrease by 80%. From 2007 to 2023 BC has only reduced 2 million tonnes of climate pollution.
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Spetrath.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Elbows up‼️ @spetrath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Check out pluginsolarpower.ca
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Plug-In Solar for Canada
An estimated 4 to 5 million European homes use a plug-in solar kit to cut their power bill. Help unlock certified kits across Canada, province by province and federally.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
a reminder: they are releasing 100m barrels over 4 months. the world uses about 100m barrels of oil/day. one days's worth. over four months. this will be less than 1M Barrels/day. or less than 1%/day. just for perspective. And at the end of the 4 months, there will less reserves, in reserve.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 02/10/2026
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Diesel prices are rising worldwide. So are electric truck sales.
Sales of medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks hit a high in the first half of 2026, mostly thanks to China. Diesel prices are set to keep the momentum…
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"At least 50 health workers have died after contracting the virus." This shouldn't be happening. People shouldn't be dying when the go to work to help others. We should have better OHS procedures for HCWs in the Congo. Independent inquiry, now.
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An Ebola treatment center was burned down as the death toll in Congo passes 4,000
Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.
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Alberta's Voice @albertasvoice.ca · 24/09/2026
On October 19th, send Danielle Smith a message. Vote NO to her nine costly questions nobody asked for. No to Danielle Smith. No to the Nine. #ableg #abpoli #alberta #abreferendum
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Alberta's Voice @albertasvoice.ca · 02/10/2026
Danielle Smith’s unnecessary referendum is dividing communities and wasting taxpayer dollars. On October 19, send a message and vote with Alberta’s Voice. No to Danielle Smith. No to the Nine. #alberta #abreferendum #abpoli #ableg #daniellesmith
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
new ad from @albertasvoice.ca
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 01/10/2026
”...provinces [that] have been aggressively promoting for-profit delivery of surgeries and diagnostic imaging are also (seeing) lengthening wait times and...struggling with getting patients into services quickly.” @alonghurst.bsky.social #onpoli www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario...
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Ontario spent $280M on private health clinics but wait times got worse says new study
Ontario MRI, cancer surgery, and cataract wait times all rose from 2017–2025, despite $280M spent licensing private health clinics, a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study found.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
~426.0 ppm: September average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa, estimated from daily values. That's another ~1.7 ppm higher than last year. September is the lowest point in the seasonal cycle, and we won't see a value this low (but extremely high) for many generations to come.
13 months of daily, weekly, and monthly values, showing the seasonal swing with an underlying increase. September is the lowest point in the seasonal cycle.
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The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change @lancetcountdown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📣 Register for the launch of the 10th Global Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. Join us on 28 October as experts present the latest evidence on climate change and health. 💻 Hybrid event Registration: buff.ly/b5x1y15
Promotional graphic encouraging registration for the launch of the 10th Global Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. The image shows a person walking along a city street carrying an umbrella, with event details for 28 October, 13:00-15:30 GMT, at the British Library and online. Lancet Countdown 10-year anniversary branding appears at the bottom.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Want to send a message of support to the 15 young plaintiffs in the LaRose vs. His Majesty climate trial? Thanks to @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social of @forourkidsalberta.bsky.social here's an easy to use form to send them some words of wisdom, or just encouragement. Go team Safe Future!
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Send a Message of Support to the Youth Plaintiffs in the Historic Climate Case - La Rose v. His Majesty the King
For Our Kids is organizing a card for the La Rose youth plaintiffs: fifteen young Canadians taking the federal government to court for violating their constitutional rights by promoting and expanding ...
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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In a very real way people that are choosing to expand fossil fuel production right now are literally choosing people to die. Not just now either, for hundreds of years to come. Not just people either ecosystems, species. It's stunning to me this is celebrated.
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City of Calgary @calgary.ca · 01/10/2026
You can now recycle more in your blue cart! More packaging can now go in your blue cart, including flexible plastic bags and wrappers, foam packaging, aerosols, and tubes. Remember: recycle them empty, clean and loose (unbagged). Learn more at www.calgary.ca/waste/reside...
Infographic announcing that, starting October 1, 2026, new provincial recycling rules allow more packaging to be recycled in blue carts. A large blue recycling cart is shown at the bottom with arrows pointing into it. Examples of newly accepted items are grouped into four categories: flexible plastic bags and wrappers (chip bag, coffee bag, food pouch, snack wrapper), foam packaging (protective foam block, foam egg carton, foam takeout container, meat tray), food and body aerosols (cooking spray, deodorant spray, sunscreen spray, whipped cream can), and tubes (deodorant, hair gel tube, lotion tube, toothpaste).
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney's frequent references to climate change at these oil & gas announcements are also supposed to undermine any charges that he's a climate change denier. (Because looking only at his record on oil & gas projects & his hand-waving away Canada's emissions targets well justifies the accusation.)
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How PMMC weaves climate change in here is weird but I believe it's part of a new comms tactic. Mentioning the "existential threat of climate change" along with climate destroying projects is supposed to signal to Cdns that he's got this, that we don't have to think abt it bc he's taking care of it.
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Big Bird Sings 'One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other'
ALT: Big Bird Sings 'One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other'
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
His parents must be SO proud. #WorldBollardAssociation
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The threat against Mr. Lewis goes far beyond the bounds of any justifiable rhetoric. It is hate speech, and it is dangerously threatening. As citizens in a democratic and secular society, we are all duty-bound to call out extremism and threats." charlieangus.substack.com/p/national-p...
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NATIONAL POST CROSSES LINE ON THREAT AGAINST LEWIS
A recent editorial on New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis crossed the line into an extremist hate threat. It needs to be called out.
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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1/ So it’s official. Faced with a choice between whales and oil, our Prime Minister chose oil. Faced with a choice between a safe climate and more fossil fuel expansion, he chose oil again. Today, Mark Carney announced yet another mammoth oilsands pipeline. #cdnpoli #bcpoli 🧵
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Donate to their work here: www.abdoes.ca/donate
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DONATE | Defenders of the Eastern Slopes
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I support the Defenders of the Eastern Slopes @eastslopedefenders.bsky.social Activists' efforts delays major deforestation project in Crowsnest Pass – at least for a day medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney tells Canadians “we have to do this” (??) because there’s an energy crisis on three fronts. One of those fronts, he says, is climate change. Which is why we need………a new crude oil pipeline???????
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/10/2026
Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Former deans of medicine call on Ottawa to intervene in Alberta’s dual-practice health care model. In a letter to Carney, they assert the private-public model violates tge Canada Health Act, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Former deans of medicine call on Ottawa to intervene in Alberta’s dual-practice health care model
In a letter to Carney, deans from the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta assert public-private model violates the Canada Health Act
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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Red Flags Abound for BC’s LNG Canada 2 Announcement #1 - Coming global LNG supply glut #2 - Phase 2 is a bet that Qatar doesn't recover from Iran attacks #3 - China's LNG imports have peaked #BCpoli #BCElection #cdnpoli energi.media/markham-on-e...
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LNG Canada Phase 2: The $33-Billion Bet on Asian Demand
LNG Canada Phase 2 is a $33-billion bet on Asian demand, Qatar recovery and a historic wave of new global LNG supply.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now it is ten. Ten US states have made plugin solar affordable. zero Canadian provinces. Help me understand.
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California Officially Legalizes Balcony Solar, Opening the Market to the New Technology | KQED
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to make it simpler for Californians to install plug-in solar panels. Models that meet state standards are expected to be on sale in mid-2027.
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Our Children’s Trust @youthvgov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In just two months, 15 young people will make climate history as La Rose v. His Majesty the King heads to trial in Vancouver — Canada’s first federal youth climate trial. Visit our toolkit to learn more about the case and help spread the word: ourchildrenstrust.org/canadatrial-toolkit
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West Coast Environmental Law @wcelaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Want to learn more about the historic youth climate case going to trial next month? Join us for a free webinar 10/7 at 12pm PT. Hear from one of the youth plaintiffs and the legal team about why they brought the case, what they’re asking the court to do & how to get involved. bit.ly/LaRoseWebinar
Four youth plaintiffs in the La Rose case are pictured collage-style under the headline "Canadian Youth Make Climate History: La Rose v. His Majesty the King"
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Our Children’s Trust @youthvgov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For the first time, 15 young people in La Rose v. His Majesty the King will have the opportunity to share their climate stories with the court and explain how the climate crisis affects their lives, health, and futures. Attend the trial, RSVP today! bit.ly/rsvp-larosetrial @wcelaw.bsky.social
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Allan @allanrst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Supports climate law suit www.castanet.net/news/Letters...
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Supports climate law suit
I have been following the case of 15 young Canadians who, after seven years of determination, will finally have their day in court in La Rose v. His Majesty the King.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please please please don't spend tax dollars on a new West Coast pipeline.
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Susan Waters @stsuous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Superlab cancellation? DynaLife fiasco? Payouts every time the UCP fired AHS personnel? The list goes on!
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, the tolerant will be destroyed and tolerance with them,”
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Opinion: We must call Alberta separation what it is
It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I support the Defenders of the Eastern Slopes @eastslopedefenders.bsky.social Activists' efforts delays major deforestation project in Crowsnest Pass – at least for a day medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...
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Jonatan Hildén @jhilden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finished Proof by @adamjkucharski.bsky.social , would recommend! ”A simplistic view of scientific evidence risks a path of too much faith followed by too much disillusionment” is well put.
Adam Kucharski: Proof, the uncertain science of certaintyEven if we can accumulate sutlicient evidence to answer a particular question, and convince ourselves that it is correct, we next have the issue of how to convince other people. This means working to understand the ladders of true and false information, targeting action at the appropriate step. It is not just about data or research; it is a matter of psychology, politics and prior beliefs.
Faced with random events and elusive causes, it is easy to turn to stories and soundbites. That is why exposure to the underlying methods of science matters so much. A simplistic view of scientific evidence risks a path of too much faith followed by too much disillusionment. From researchers to journalists, societies must get better at communicating how the process works, monsters and all. I often talk about science as like building a house on a swamp, as Ewan Birney put it.
'You have to lay these foundations, and you build bigger struc-tures, but sometimes you just don't get your foundations right and a whole wall collapses.'6
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is better energy journalism than you'll see in most Canadian newspapers today -- and certainly anything coming out of Postmedia in Alberta. I've yet to see any of the talking heads and industry spokespeople actually confront it. energi.media/markham-on-e...
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LNG Canada Phase 2: The $33-Billion Bet on Asian Demand
LNG Canada Phase 2 is a $33-billion bet on Asian demand, Qatar recovery and a historic wave of new global LNG supply.
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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am incensed by this taxpayer-funded UCP propaganda from beginning to end - from its dishonest title (how does imposing fees on immigrants make AB stronger?) to its slanted commentary (eg federal firearms laws are now "federal meddling" at 10 that needs to be trumped). 1/ #abpoli #ableg
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Everything about this referendum on separation and the other nine questions on the ballot – among other things they attempt to scapegoat immigrants for many of the province’s problems – is contemptible. It’s a phony, illegitimate exercise Ms. Smith has lent credibility to in order to save her job."
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Opinion: The ugly reckoning coming for Danielle Smith
The referendum, including the nine non-secession questions, is contemptible
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How a fake AI columnist duped Canadian media outlets. Daniel Robson almost became a budding star in Canadian conservative media. There was just one problem: He doesn't exist, by @ilkersezer.bsky.social www.turkiyetoday.com/world/exclus... via @turkiyetoday.bsky.social @perreaux.bsky.social
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Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today
The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter
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